Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.

If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.